Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:24:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Message-ID: <20021025041846.B1170-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <1103.1035479390@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200210241603.MAA18418@leviathan.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: > > >Here is a *non* PC98 machine report. My 4 year old Toshiba > >Ultium (a Ppro machine with onboard aic 7880 scsi controller) > >does not boot. It can't find the root device and drops into > >the rootmount menu. Until now I haven't had any time to even > >hook up a serial port -- hope to send a more detailed report > >today. > > Make sure you don't have one of the bogus "ad0a" style devices > listed for your root filesystem. Yes, standard slice names are now decreed bogus. You have to use i386-centric names like ad0s4a, at least on i386's with disks that actually have slices. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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